Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-15
All Along The Line.

the bitter opposition.
The druggists of Kansas nov Join
the saloonists in the chorus that pro
hibition prohibits.
The Sultan of Morocco has prohibit
ed the sale or purchase OF intoxicants
of all kinds, and abolished the use of
tobacco. Offenders are logged or be-
headed.
Would all the officers unite in setting
an. example of total abstinence from
intoxicating drinks, it would be equal
to an addition of $4,000 men to the
armies of the United States.-(Geo. b.
M:Clellan.)
We christian people vote to license
liquor selling. and make the saloon
keepers pay us money enough to pay
for the collins and hearses and graves
of our poor drunken sons. God help
us to qnil killing our Grew.
Sam. Jones.A
1t is now d settled fact among those
who have made hygiene a special stu
dy, that drunkenness, unless Inherited,
seldom if ever, begins until there has
been a habitual use of lighter stimuli
ants, either in food or drinks. God
Pounds our being on natural laws T; con-
s%equently our children should be taught
the laws Of health first OF all, because
their physical being is the firm base Of
the whole pyramid of character.
Minnesota has a new high-licence
law. The saloon-keepers of Vermillion,
Dakota County, vowed the would close
up their saloons before they would pay
$500 license. The village authorities
swore in the saloon-keepers as special
policemen. and fixed their salaries at
$500 a year each. The saloon-keepers
then took out their license at $500 each,
thus compelling the village of Vermil-
lion to pay four-ifths of the license for
Its murder-mills.
A tree fed on good soil will produce
healthy, well developed fruit, while
that of its neighbor, which has been
fed on some badly drained soil, will be
small and frequently spotted with dis.
ease ; and just 50 our strength is furn'
ished by the food we eat, and whatever
imparts unnatural strength, creates {
demand for artificial strength, conse
quently the mothers and wives should
understand the nutritive qualities o1
different kinds Of food, and why some
are easy of digestion and others are
not, and in what way each builds uI
the body. They should be able to select
and prepare just the kind of food cal
culated to make the best blood, brains
and body and above all, they shoulo
know: the tendency of unwholesome
stimulating, impoverished dietary, tt
lead toward intemperance.
An old Jewish Rabbi said, "the LORI
could not be everywhere, consequent.
he made mothers" 1t seems to be tn
mission of mothers of this nation tt
save the country from Drunkenness
The question of good health plays NJ
unimportant part, since the w. CT.
mothers have taken up the subject o
healthful living, and we are beginning
to understand that the pledge is no
sufficient guarantee against the newt
able working out Of natural laws, ant
that no ribbon can hold power enough
to quiet a diseased stomach. We ar
beginning to see that the Hebrew
could make brick without straw mucl
more successfully than the stomach
can make good brains out of stron|
coffee, Saratoga chips, and fried sau
sage: and we now have more faith in
mustard plaster outside OF the stomach
than inside, and have a faint idea tina
a human being ought"tc he something
more than a stomach with organs at
tached.
1t has been said that the most thor
ough test of q good husband is that h
never in all his married life q'.ote
mothers cooking to the wcman he ha
married. Only think of it, mother !
All these boys whose boots clatter S
noisily across your floors and stretch 8
uneaslly and restlessly under your ia
BILE, looking SO anxiously on your tabl'
to see what mother has good for Dime
this time. What a responsibility rest
upon the busiest OF us, that we form
taste and liking for temperate living i
those boys who are going to remembe
the taste of. your. pies, and pudding
and quote them as models all thei
lives. When we take IN considerable
the fact that unnecessary diseases dt
stroy 100000 lives in this country alon'
every year, and that ten times us man
people are sick and helpless from on
end Of the year to the other as is neces
sary, and that it is due to bad diet, ba
food and bad air, we at nee see tn
necessity Of the department OF hygien
in the Wet. T., the mission OF whic
is TO arrest thought and place the RI